Approximately half of wood warbler species breed in the temperate zone of North America, and about half of these in southeastern Canada and the northeastern U.S.\u00a0 Most of these species winter in the tropics, and comprise the emblematic group of Neotropical migrant songbirds, diverse in their appearances and susceptible to the impacts of habitat destruction on their breeding and wintering grounds and at some strategic stopover points.\u00a0 Some of these species\u2014most prominently the Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata<\/em>)\u2014fly nonstop for hundreds or thousands of miles over the open ocean, journeys that seem impossible for such small, delicate songbirds.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t